A short tour of equestrian France: the Prix du Jockey Club (Gr1) at the beginning of June and, for the specialists, an absolute record, that of Ace Impact who not only won but also set the best time ever recorded on the 2100 m Chantilly track. A fortnight later, it was the Prix de Diane […]
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The horse at the heart of the futuristic “Médiathèque de Deauville”
On October 11, 2019, Philippe Augier, Mayor of Deauville and promoter of the so-called “Médiathèque Les Franciscaines”, signed a contract with Éric Hoyeau, President of Arqana, one of the world’s leading racehorse auction agencies, whose ties to Deauville are as obvious as they are historic, under which the operator undertook to provide financial support for […]
Tim Cox’s Great Library
With more than 18,000 references and therefore as many books and documents devoted exclusively to racing and thoroughbreds collected over forty years, Tim Cox could appear to be eccentric, bulimic, insane. And yet, it was a completely different man, discreet, affable, sensitive, measured, who received us in his small mansion in Dorking (Surrey) which he […]
At the heart of the Condé Museum’s Cabinet des Livres with Marie Pierre Dion
One cannot enter the “Cabinet des Livres” set up by the Duke of Aumale (1822-1897) in the “little castle” of Chantilly, also known as the Condé Museum, without feeling a strong emotion, a real shock. If that’s what the man who has often been known to book enthusiasts as the “Prince of Bibliophiles” wanted about […]
Updates and developments
The database is progressively enriched with new data sets, processed and integrated in successive batches. The data is in xml-ead and xml-tei format, after a phase of alignment with existing data and enrichment according to authority records (Rameau, VIAF, SUDOC, IdRef, etc.). Here are the main evolutions of the successive versions of the World Horse […]